AP – ” John Steinbeck kept his California roots close when writing such masterpieces as “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden,” but the Nobel Prize winner also loved New York and made it his home for much of his life. Now, a trove of his personal letters, manuscripts and photographs from his sunny three-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he lived until his death in 1968, is being offered at Bloomsbury Auctions in New York on June 23.”